Entries on Music. Preliminary Thoughts

Abstract

This article is a first attempt at examining some of the aspects that define the close relationship between music and its lexicon. It asserts that words, as the underside of reality, are an equally valid source for proposing new approaches to music history, whose study, on the other hand, requires a space of its own. This viewpoint forms the basis of the study of issues including the differing nature of specialised languages in relation to a common language, the connections between the lexical units of music and general language, as well as the many historiographical applications that an academic study of the entries on music can offer the musicological narrative. Finally, the article will outline some methodological premises inspired by corpus linguistics suitable for beginning research into the lexicon of music.